Italo classic- human- robot duet...check....flanging hats....check....piercing synths.....check! "Produced by Franco Rago & Gigi Farina. This version from the 2003 re-issue on Panama Records might be slightly re-edited. The original release on Leader Records from 1982 is more or less impossible to find for a non-ridiculous price." Expansives - Life with You (Instrumental) Download audio file (02%20Life%20With%20You%20(Ins trumental).mp3) Expansives - Life with You (original) Download audio file (01%20Life%20with%20You.mp3) [...]
mp3 Clip 1 mp3 Clip 2 This is not the newest release (2008), but we wanted to share it with you on the first sunny morning in awhile. Aside from the excellent Underwater Peoples Records' compilation, this collection of Congolese artist Franco's music should be a staple of your summer listening. Francophonic amasses Franco's work from 1953-1980, with the earlier years featuring breezy African melodies in the form of shorter melodic, pop nuggets, while the later years find Franco and [...]
I tend to find liner notes self-serving and hyperbolic, so I rarely post them. In this case, though, Franco's story is genuinely interesting, and so I'm posting the mp3 first and the (rather long) liner notes below. Franco "AZDA" (mp3)...
Other than Fela and arguably King Sunny Ade, few afro-pop lights burned brighter than the Congo's Franco Luambo. A guitar prodigy and auto-didact who taught himself to play at age 7, Luambo amassed a sprawling discography of over 2,000 songs before dying in Belgium in 1989. Thankfully, the recently released Francophonics compilation does the unenviable task of collecting his work and assembling it for world music dilettantes to download and front like they're polymaths (scores major points at Williamsburg/Silverlake/18th Century Prussian PBR parties). The widely acknowledged master of African Rumba (also known as Soukous, Vampire Weekend [...]
I don't understand what the big deal is with the on-screen kiss. I mean, he is an actor - that's his job. David Letterman needs to get off air and CBS needs to employ some new blood.
Artist -> Franco Cangelli Title -> Taking The Next Cloud Genre -> Techno CatNo -> 7SR013 Label -> Seventh Sign DL-Link [...]
A year back, late at night and stoned out of my wits, I came upon a MySpace page in homage to the great Afropop guitar wizard and bandleader Franco and his band TP OK Jazz . I immediately made Franco my new friend. That, I kind of figured, might be the last of it, but over the weekend the MySpace personages behind it threw out a bulletin, and I'd like to share it with you. What's probably most remarkable about this clip is that you don't have to [...]
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